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...Ladies. Three new freshmen coeds, all Democrats, will join the six women already in the House. Prettiest newcomer is Hollywood's Helen Gahagan Douglas, 43, wife of Screen Actor Melvyn Douglas, now an Army major shepherding entertainers in the China-Burma-India theater. Miss Gahagan is a former Broadway star (Tonight or Never), mother of two, a passionate New Dealer. Another new Douglas (no relation) in the House is Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated...
Looking for clews, the police found a large wooden chest. Then a screen of wartime secrecy dropped down around the investigation, with the local U.S. G-men showing interest. In the chest were German and Japanese propaganda, elaborate maps, photos of important U.S. bridges, and a photo of one of the victims in the company of a "Japanese imperial personage." There was also a Japanese flag with insignia which suggested that the notorious Black Dragon Society might reach as far as Peru...
...admirer of Novelist Richard Llewellyn's works, told RKO's Executive Producer Charles Koerner that he wanted to play the novel's pimply, adolescent, Cockney hero, Ernie Mott. It got a propitious leg-up when young Producer David Hempstead called in Clifford Odets to do the screen play. It got itself and Hollywood a new and gifted director when Odets took on that job, too. For still more luster, Producer Hempstead-and the script-enticed Ethel Barrymore back into pictures...
...plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...
...characters and plot and, like many otherwise laudable stories about democracy, a shade too sanctimonious, The Master Race is nonetheless an unusually pointed, serious, well-made picture. When the cornered villain jeers at his enemies, "You fall out among yourselves. . . . Victory is a nightmare to you. . . ," the screen play makes articulate a fierce and needed admonition to all men of good intention. When Miss Gates, cajoled in a sinister way by Mr. Coulouris, nervously binds and unbinds the hair ribbon of her precarious girlishness and stares with swelling excitement into her mirrored face, she makes clear a notably mature...